Corn is King, Bible is Solid in Weekend Box

Not much newsworthy at the documentary box office this weekend aside from the strong debut of Aaron Woolf's KING CORN, which garnered nearly $7K from a single Manhattan screen (the Cinema Village), and the solid second week for Daniel Karslake's FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO, which expanded from 1 to 11 screens and averaged nearly $4K per screen.  The high profile release of the weekend, Barbet Schroeder's Cannes and Toronto selection TERROR'S ADVOCATE, averaged slightly less than FOR THE BIBLE, with approximately $3,700 per screen.

The weekend's biggest indie release was Anton Corbijn's CONTROL, whose single screen gross of $27K inspired a Weinstein Co. flack to offer this bon mot to indieWIRE:

"This is the kind of movie Harvey Weinstein shows himself to be very adept at marketing."

Um, not for nothing, and granted this comes in the midst of yet another NY Times piece on the Weinstein's (reportedly) poor financial situation AND in the wake of an lengthy NY Times Magazine piece that chastised Harvey for not  knowing what to do with Todd Haynes' upcoming Dylan biopic (seriously, NY Times, 2 pieces in a week?), but I have to say that if there is one thing that has made absolutely no impact on me vis a vie CONTROL, it's whether or not the Weinstein's are distributing it.  It is beyond an after-thought.

But back to docs, there's little change in the top 15, although IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON is likely to crack 1 million by next weekend, therefore it's the biggest mover from last week.

Here's the top 15 docs thus far in 2007 through this past weekend:

1.    SICKO (LionsGate)                                  $24,530,513

2.    NO END IN SIGHT (Magnolia)                   $  1,414,687

3.    IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON (THINK)   $    941,775

4.    ARCTIC TALE (Paramount Vantage)         $    829,650

5.    SHARKWATER (Alliance)                          $    816,798

6.    INTO GREAT SILENCE (Zeitgeist)              $    788,438

7.    THE 11TH HOUR (Warner Independent)    $    707,343

8.    THE KING OF KONG (Picturehouse)           $    661,962

9.    GYPSY CARAVAN (Shadow)                       $    395,623

10.  GOD GREW TIRED OF US (Newmarket)      $    301,447

11.  CRAZY LOVE (Magnolia)                           $    301,027

12.  DEEP WATER (IFC)                                   $    223,575

13.  MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES (Zeitgeist)   $    222,026

14.  AN UNREASONABLE MAN (IFC)                   $    176,647

15.  HELVETICA                                              $    157,315